By Our Reporter
At a time when differences in the ruling Nepal Communist Party have deepened with one faction trying to eliminate other people have been facing one problem after another.
People are now in constant fear of floods and landslides and coronavirus has already been there to scare them. But the ruling party has been wasting time in the feud and has failed to find consensus. Even after two chairs, Prime Minister Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal, resumed their stalled parley on Tuesday. But they again failed to find a common point of understanding, clearly hinting that the differences between the two leaders will not be sorted out in immediate future.
Media reports have that the one-on-one meeting between the two chairmen of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), Prime Minister Oli and Dahal held to fix the latest intra-party rift has ended without forging consensus.
After a gap of six days, the top brass of the party had met on Tuesday in an attempt to minimise their differences amid the intense intra-party differences.
The communist leaders who gave more importance to power than the problem of people chose to engage in intra-party fight when people were getting infected and dying of coronavirus, and landslides were there to create havoc across the nation. But for Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Bam Dev Gautam becoming Prime Minister became more important than the people’s lives and for Jhalanath Khanal the post of the President became everything. Their greed for power and envy towards Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli fueled intra-party rift to the extent of a party split. Even within the Oli camp, the leaders, especially those in government tried to utilise the crisis invited by coronavirus to make fast buck leading to public frustration.
When the authorities in the Health Ministry involved in corruption while importing the first batch of medical supplies at a time when the people were in fear of COVID-19 only tarnished the image of the government. The kidnapping of the lawmaker of the then Federal Socialist Party, the controversial ordinances and their withdrawal and the attempt of PM Oli to split Federal Socialist Party only weakened the foundation of the government and the rival leaders within the party further attacked the government asking the PM to quit. India has already been waiting to see the fall of the Oli-led government for issuing the updated map including all territories of Nepal in it.
Of course, it was a shame the leaders of the ruling party, which nearly enjoys two-third majority for the ill-time power-centric feud.
The rift within the ruling communist party has proved that the communists are not accountable to people, it is power and money what matters more than the people for them.
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